A Companion to Hungarian Studies [antikvár]

PREFACEBy COUNT STEPHEN BETHLENThe Companion to Hungarian Studies has been produced to meet a practical need. In recent years the editors ojTThe Hungarian Quarterly have found by experience that it is difficult, if not impossible, to ask foreign experts to ivrite on Hungarian questions because the information necessary to them on the subject of Hungary and the Hungarian people is almost entirely in the Hungarian language. There is virtually no literature upon general sub* jects connected with Hungary in the great European languages, apart from the articles which have appeared in the pages of the Nouvelle Revue de Hongrie and, in the last six years, The Hungarian Quarterly, The disadvantages of this have been only too apparent on countless occasions; it was only infrequently that we could ask, foreign writers of note for an article on the problems of the Danube Valley or Hungarian affairs, since with the exception of the Encyclopaedia Britannica and a few comprehensive studies there was no source from which they could collate the basic facts of the Hungarian past and present. If therefore the writer was to elticidate a matter in which he possessed special knowledge from the Hungarian standpoint, he would be faced with the necessity of laboriously collecting elaborate data which had probably, in any event, been done already by our native writers, before he could even begin to deal with his subject.The Companion to Hungarian Studies is therefore intended to supply this need in some measure, and it is to some extent modelled on similar work in otherfields. There are already books in the English language which serve as introductions to Greek